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Scribd /skrbd/ is a digital library and ebook, audiobook and comic book

subscription service that includes one million titles.[2][3][4][5] In addition, Scribd hosts 60
million documents on its open publishing platform.[6]
Founded in 2007 by Trip Adler, Jared Friedman and Tikhon Bernstam and
headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company is backed by Khosla
Ventures, Y Combinator, Charles River Ventures, and Redpoint Ventures. [7] Scribd's
ebook subscription service is available on Android and iOS smartphones and tablets,
as well as the Kindle Fire, Nook, and personal computers. Subscribers can access
unlimited books from 1,000 publishers, including HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster,
Harlequin, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Macmillan, Bloomsbury, Workman, Lonely
Planet, Perseus Book Group and Wiley. [8][9]
Scribd added audiobooks to their subscription service in November 2014 and comic
books in February 2015.[10][11] Scribd has 80 million users, and has been referred to as
the Netflix for books.

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